Designers to watch #1

Five designers to watch #1: Weno, Thisnorthat, Moon Chang, Matte Nolim, Cecilia Sertori. A weekly spotlight on five emerging talents making waves, picked by Nasty.

WENO

Luxury fashion brand based in Paris, created on September 2015 by a couple who graduated at ESMOD Paris, with a family background in textile production. Every human being needs a second skin, a protection for themselves. Starting from this assumption, the brand draws forth inspirations ranging from daily life elements to artworks and movies. Their “Sensitive Playmate” S/S17 Collection has a swimming pool theme, mainly inspired by the film Dogtooth directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. –Credits: Photography by Binshin Su.

wenostudio.com / @wenostudio

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THISNORTHAT

Tanli Chen comes from Malaysia and Yubo Lin comes from China, they met during the master in Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni in Milan. After the graduation they started the label so merging their two different backgrounds. Chen is expert in paper pattern design and Lin is good at designing exaggerated silhouettes. Chen is fascinated by ideas of no-gender and identity while Lin curates all the details with a inner child-like heart. The contradictions co-exist harmoniously even better if the two designers keep emphasizing such elements throughout their collections. -Credits: Photography by Bula Yu.

www.thisnorthat.com.cn / @matte_nolim

MOON CHANG

Moon Chang is a Korean designer based in New York. Her latest collection “Fashion Victim” aims to depict a young insider’s look onto the Industry and its controversial aspects, uniting personal experiences and more generalist considerations to show how ugly things can be felt beautiful, and how beautiful things can be awful. -Credits: Photography by Matin Zad.

@moonchangny

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MATTE NOLIM

Siyethemba Duma, also known as Matte, was born in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He graduated at Durban University Of Technology in Fashion Design and then established his own ready-to-wear label in 2013. His aesthetic could be defined a Modern African Minimalism and with his latest “Mirror|rorriM” collection he showed his unexpected and reworked African aesthetic with striking shapes instead of draping and plain neutral colors rather than tribal prints. -Credits: Photography by Jack Michael Singer.

@matte_nolim

CECILIA SERTORI

Cecilia Sertori is an emerging designer graduated at Polimoda in 2015 with the collection “Dethroned God”. She defines herself as a dreamer, with a strong attraction for different cultures and languages since she was a child. The strong concepts behind her collections allude to a theoretical opposition between real entities and spiritual dimension in the modern society. With her creations (not only garments but also hats and accessories), she openly experiments with shapes and materials, seeming always able to find a difficult balance between opposing cultures and inspirations. -Credits: pag.1-2 photography by Gioconda&August / pag.3 photography by Szilveszter Mako.

@cecily1302

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Selection by Zhujun Gao / @zhujun_gao

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